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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.
Charles Babbage
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Mathematician
Country
Drudgery
Employed
Genius
Instruction
Policy
Tuscany
Valuable
Allow
Mr
Elementary
Surely
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The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray.
Robert Aris Willmott
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Author
Different
Genius
Light
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The Democrats are very bad at selling their own product. The Republicans are geniuses at it. And I've said it before, a bad product well apologized for is superior in this country to a good product.
Bill Maher
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Comedian
Country
Democracy
Genius
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Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject.
Samuel Johnson
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Writer
Genius
Lucky
Sparrows
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The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.
Andrea Dworkin
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Writer
Common
Dynamics
Found
Genius
Obscure
Reality
Rebellion
Slave
United
Uprising
Against
Condition
Each
Inconceivable
Isolate
Oppressor
Slaves
System
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Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.
Comte De Lautreamont
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Balance
Genius
Plus
Supreme
Taste
Faculties
Fundamental
Qualities
Sums
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A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius.
Walter Savage Landor
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Writer
Faults
Genius
Levels
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To some extent, we all have quirks or idiosyncrasies, and some geniuses, because of how bright they are and how focused they are, may have liberal eccentricities, but they're not at a disabling level.
Darold Treffert
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Psychiatrist
Genius
Levels
May
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I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel—everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.
Mary Maclane
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Writer
Feelings
Fire
Genius
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You know, it doesn't take a genius in the private sector to know that you can save literally hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending if you can make it more responsive. That's the main job.
Darrell Issa
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U.s. Representative
Jobs
Billions
Dollars
Federal Spending
Genius
Private Sector
Spending
Billions Of Dollars
Hundreds
Literally
Main
Private
Responsive
Save
Sector
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If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.
Robert Quillen
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Journalist
Attention
Genius
Giving
Mind
Sides
Accurately
Chiefly
Consists
Till
Steadily
Subject
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Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos or kilo-homers of genius a given artifact has in it.
Robert Anton Wilson
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Author
Artistic
Genius
Silly
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There are lots of cycles to markets - boom and bust - and also in perceptions of people. The conventional wisdom of Steve Case as genius or fool was highly cyclical. The truth was always in the middle.
Steve Case
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Entrepreneur
Genius
People
Perception
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When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.
George Clooney
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Actor
Danger
Genius
Inhale
Good Believe People
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It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.
George Bernard Shaw
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Playwright
Uncles
Genius
Mind
Taste
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Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a genius. You don't have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.
John C. Maxwell
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Author
Leadership
Care
Genius
Initiate
People
Rich
Together
Everyone
Potential
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The working of revolutions misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it may not be a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its forms, the genius of humanity blossoms.
Johann Gottfried Herder
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Philosopher
Genius
Humanity
Race
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One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven. Thus genius works in different ways to achieve its ends.
Stephen Spender
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Poet
Different
Genius
Way
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When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries.
William James
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Philosopher
Bipolar
Genius
Kind
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Though He did what he could to help the multitudes, He had to devote Himself primarily to a few men, rather than the masses, so that the masses could at last be saved. This was the genius of his strategy.
Robert Emerson Coleman
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Author
Men
Christian
Genius
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I’m the archetype of a disabled genius, or should I say a physically challenged genius, to be politically correct. At least I’m obviously physically challenged. Whether I’m a genius is more open to doubt.
Stephen Hawking
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Physicist
Doubt
Genius
Should
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To express himself well, the artist should be hidden. The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done for. The only salvation is to work like a labourer, and not have delusions of grandeur.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Artist
Artist
Done
Genius
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The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.
Toru Takemitsu
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Film Score Composer
Art
Genius
Mean
Soil
Art History Music
Developed
Geniuses
History Art Music
Musicians
Supporting
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Because there is no greater evil than ignorance and the destruction of genius. Ignorance has been responsible for more death, more bigotry, and more sin than any other force. It is the destroyer of mankind.
Richelle Mead
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Author
Evil
Genius
Ignorance
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Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.
George Matthew Adams
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Columnist
Men
Character
Fame
Genius
Greater
Soul
Talent
Unhappy
Useless
Bankrupt
Comparatively
Remain
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There were some great clinicians in the 20th century - great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a genius - there's a half-dozen psychologists of the 1950s and humanists of the 1960s.
Jordan Peterson
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Psychologist
Century
Genius
Great Men
Men Great Great Men
Freud
Some
Psychologists
Rogers
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If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.
Madame De Stael
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Writer
Men
Genius
League
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If you're going to impeach him, impeach [Donald Trump].If he did something wrong, arrest him. But don't cry the blues because you didn't get the vote out and this man had a genius way of winning the election.
Jim Brown
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Football Player
Men
Genius
Winning
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There's a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses. If you're a little ahead of your time, you're an eccentric, and if you're too late, you're a failure, but if you hit it right on the head, you're a genius.
Thomas Watson, Jr.
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Businessman
Genius
Lines
Too Late
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Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Essayist
Men
Genius
Vitality
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Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
Albert Pike
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Attorney
Men
Artist
Genius
Poor
Achieved
Almost All
Artists
Noblest
Philosophers
Poets
Professional
Scholars
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He [Timbaland] meshes well with a lot of great people, like he meshes well with Timberlake, Missy Elliott, Nelly Furtado. I'm hoping I'm another one that he meshes well with, because it could be really genius.
Justin Bieber
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Musician
Genius
Mesh
People
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It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely a surprising and unexpected movement away from collective patterns of behavior and received wisdom.
William Irwin Thompson
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Critic
Genius
Movement
Patterns
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Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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Writer
Genius
Responsibility
Want
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To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius.
Bruce Lee
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Martial Artist
Art
Genius
Style
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The names of all fine authors are fictitious ones, far more so than that of Junius,--simply standing, as they do, for the mystical, ever-eluding Spirit of all Beauty, which ubiquitously possesses men of genius.
Herman Melville
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Novelist
Beauty
Men
Genius
Names
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Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less civilized Shakespeare might have been wilder, but would not have been vulgar.
Horace Walpole
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Politician
Age
Genius
Might
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Undereye patches are genius. From traveling, I get really puffy under my eyes. Klorane Smoothing and Relaxing Patches are a great ten-minute trick to look refreshed. They're perfect for moms running on no sleep.
Lily Aldridge
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Model
Running
Genius
Patches
Sleep
Great Eyes Look
Moms
Puffy
Refreshed
Relaxing
Traveling
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
Gore Vidal
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Writer
Government
Class
Genius
Heavy
Majority
People
Questioning
Return
Ruling
Taxes
Government People Nothing
Along
Ever
Inequity
Paying
Ruling Class
System
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God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
Marcus Garvey
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Publisher
God
Eternity
Genius
Law
Made
Measurement
Sky
Then
Own
First
Created
Follow
Limit
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All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, my friends, if that is true, and it is true, what is the point?
Bertrand Russell
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Philosopher
Age
Genius
Inspiration
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Not only must the most privileged feel they are brothers and sisters of the most destitute, but the most destitute must feel as well that something within them makes them equal to the greatest sages and geniuses.
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
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Faith
Brother
Genius
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In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed itself no less in his character and in the quality of his thought.
Lytton Strachey
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Writer
Quality
Character
Genius
Sheer
Displayed
Greatest Writers
Ranks
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A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Former Prime Minister Of India
Culture
Genius
Race
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The launch of iPhone is very possibly bigger than the launch of the first Apple II or the first Mac. Steve Jobs's genius is his ability to use technology to create products that define fundamental cultural shifts.
John Sculley
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Businessman
Jobs
Technology
Ability
Bigger
Genius
Iphone
Products
Apple
Apple Ii
Create
Cultural
Define
Mac
Fundamental
Launch
Possibly
Shifts
Steve
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When leadership rises to genius it has the power of transforming, of transforming experience into power. And that is what experience is for, to be made into power. The great leader creates as well as directs power.
Mary Parker Follett
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Social Worker
Leadership
Genius
Great Leader
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Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals, but the public morals of modern nations will not bear inspection.
Ambrose Bierce
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Journalist
Government
Bears
Genius
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My encouragement: delete the energy vampires from your life, clean out all complexity, build a team around you that frees you to fly, remove anything toxic, and cherish simplicity. Because that's where genius lives.
Robin S. Sharma
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Encouragement
Cherish
Clean
Complexity
Energy
Genius
Remove
Simplicity
Team
Toxic
Build
Delete
Fly
Vampires
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The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
John Stuart Mill
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Philosopher
Courage
Smile
Society
Amount
Danger
Dare
Eccentric
Genius
Moral
Moral Courage
Vigor
Now
Chief
Contained
Few
Generally
Marks
Mental
Proportional
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One of the big surprises for me about Einstein was... that he wasn't this big introvert; he was more like a novelist or a painter. It's amazing how close society came to not benefiting from Albert Einstein's genius.
Ron Howard
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Film Director
Amazing
Genius
Introvert
Painter
Albert
Benefiting
Came
Close
Surprises
Einstein
Novelist
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